General Development Discussions

HI, I'm using e-tester version 8.2..My problem is about regular expessions.

I need to catch a dynamic value from a Form Field (My-TxtBox).. this textbox gets pre populated data ( when the customer has info in the database).. this is the code:
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*<input name="My-TxtBox" type="text" value="XXXX" id="ID-TxtBox"*
---- ( XXXX = dynamic number prepopulated by the web app)

So, I'm using this regular expression:
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*<input name="My-TxtBox" type="text" value="(.+?)" id="ID-TxtBox"*
-----At this point, everything is fine.. but there is an exception

I'm getting a big problem when the customer doesn't have data in the server, the code is NOT like this
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<input name="My-TxtBox" type="text" value="" id="ID-TxtBox"

When the customer doesn't have data in the server, the code is more like this:
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*<input name="My-TxtBox" type="text" id="ID-TxtBox"*
---- (please note that there is not a value parameter now)

So, I think there is no way to create a CDV that will work for both cases? any idea to solve this?


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i was thinking that maybe in the reg exps sintax you can create an "OR" statement.. my idea was to create a CDV
that works for both cases.. when there is the "value=" string and when there is not.

something like this

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This CDV returns the dynamic value when there is the "value=" string =
<input name="My-TxtBox" type="text" value="(.+?)" id="ID-TxtBox"

And this CDV returns "" when there is no "value=" string = Without value:
<input name="My-TxtBox" type="text" (.*?)id="ID-TxtBox"

My idea is to place something like this in some point of the CDV = *{* value="(.+?)" *OR* (.*?) *}*

so my dream is to create a CDV similar to this:
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<input name="My-TxtBox" type="text" { value="(.+?)" *OR* (.*?) }id="ID-TxtBox
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I was searching on google but I simply don't get an answer....it is posible to place an OR statement into a Reg Exp and how the sintax is? ..

Regards.. I appreciate your time.